Hey everyone,
If you are new here and are trying to find your way around , welcome :). Put your feet up and tell us about yourself. But what you shouldn't do, it you want to succeed, is comment that you will follow for follow. Very few people will do it and none of them that do have a lot of steem power. At best you will get ignored and at worse you will see more flags than a U.N. meeting. People on here do not want to see your follow messages.
Personally I don't care if you leave me a comment that says it. You would have to leave me something very egregious for me to flag you, and still, I would probably ignore it. But what I won't do is follow you, I won't even click on your profile. I will just ignore you and move on through my comments. And I am not the only one. I'm sure lots of people do not care about these posts or worse, they think this person is not authentic. Or they might even flag you. You can be a very interesting person with lots of things to say but it doesn't show in your follow for follow comment. Or, the even lazier follow 4 follow. It is the same if you make generic one word comments like nice. People on here see through it and you are only doing yourself a disservice.
What should you do? Actually write something that has anything to do about the article. Even if you didn't read the article and scanned through it, writing anything on topic is better than follow 4 follow. I am not saying kiss any one's ass, people can see through that to, just make an effort. It is your profile and you do what you want but you might be wasting your time if you think this is the way to success.
I'm not calling any one out and wish the best for anyone posting. But you might want to switch things up.
*my upvotes/rep disclaimer: https://steemit.com/steemit/@whatageek/my-steemit-account-where-i-stand-on-bots-self-votes-and-multiple-account